Watching beautiful people Fashion: The market looks very good for TV shows by the glamorous about the glamour industry.

"Elsa Klensch's Style" has been a top-five ratings winner for 17 years on CNN. "Fashion Television" is cabled on VH-1 into 150 million homes. And now hip-hop heavy Vibe magazine is bringing its heavily styled fashion-and-pop culture show, "Vibe TV," to the little screen.

And yet you still don't see many people swishing around the office in Vivienne Westwood bustle skirts as you do all the time on the E! Channel's "Fashion File." And when's the last time you ran into Todd Oldham at the flea market like you do repeatedly on MTV's "House of Style"?

Fashion on TV? This ain't PBS. The value here is entertainment.

"When the lights go down and the first model floats down the runway, that's perfection," Jeanne Beker, host of "Fashion Television," said last year.

It doesn't get any better than that. Send the video crews out to cover fashion (including fashionable parties, artists, interiors, etc.) and you've got programming for the year.

And good ratings. Think of all the viewers those beautiful bodies in designer duds can draw. All of these programs boast a 40 to 50 percent male audiences.

Because of fashion TV, a lot of guys recognize Karl Lagerfeld's fan as well as they know Tiger Woods' putter. They know Claudia Schiffer is no longer the face of Chanel. They know Pamela Anderson is no longer the "Tool Time" girl.